TRAI Denies Blocking Congress SMS Campaign

By BPN News Desk September 9, 2025

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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has rejected the Congress party’s claim that it blocked an SMS campaign by rejecting the application to send messages to party workers in Maharashtra. The Congress said the messages contained a link to a documentary titled How the MH 2024

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Undersea Cable Cuts In Red Sea Disrupt Internet In Asia, Middle East

By BPN News Desk September 8, 2025

A series of undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access across parts of Asia and the Middle East, including India, Pakistan, and the UAE. Major systems affected include SMW4 and IMEWE, located near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with Kuwait’s FALCON cable also impacted. Connectivity Slows, Cloud Users Affected Internet users across the region […]

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Airtel Network Disrupted Across India, Services Down

By BPN News Desk August 18, 2025

On Monday afternoon, a major network outage affected Airtel subscribers across India. Around 3:30 PM, reports began to flood outage trackers like Downdetector, indicating that thousands of users were unable to make voice calls or access mobile internet. Scope and Scale of Impact At peak, the outage impacted an estimated 2,500 to 3,600 users across […]

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Govt Approves New Asset Sale Route for BSNL, MTNL

By BPN News Desk July 15, 2025

The central government has introduced a new framework that allows public-sector telecom companies like BSNL, MTNL, and ITI Limited to sell their surplus land and building assets directly to central government departments and agencies without the need for auctions. This new route grants priority access to government bodies for a 90-day period before the assets […]

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Ananth Technologies Wins Approval for India’s First Private Satellite Broadband

By BPN News Desk July 5, 2025

Hyderabad‑based Ananth Technologies has received regulatory approval to deploy India’s first privately operated satellite broadband service, marking a major shift in the country’s space and telecom sectors. The company has been granted permission by IN‑SPACe to launch a geostationary satellite and roll out high-speed internet coverage across India by 2028. Private Satcom

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BharatNet Phase III to Extend Subsidised Broadband to 1.5 Crore Rural Homes

By BPN News Desk July 4, 2025

The Government of India is set to launch BharatNet Phase III, an ambitious expansion of its rural broadband network that aims to deliver subsidised internet connectivity to 1.5 crore rural households. With a proposed investment of ₹1.4 lakh crore (approximately USD 18 billion), this phase will focus on extending optical fibre coverage, upgrading infrastructure, and […]

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Telecom Minister Warns: India Can’t Afford a Duopoly

By BPN News Desk June 24, 2025

India’s Telecom Minister has strongly asserted that the country’s telecommunications sector cannot and must not become a duopoly, cautioning that such a scenario would stifle innovation, drive up consumer costs, and harm long-term development. Speaking at a high-level industry interaction, he stressed the government’s commitment to preserving a competitive,

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India Greenlights Starlink: A Leap Toward Satellite Internet

By BPN News Desk June 18, 2025

India has formally granted a Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) licence to Elon Musk’s Starlink, opening the doors for the commercial rollout of satellite internet services in the country. This development marks a significant milestone in India’s push to provide high-speed internet access in rural and remote regions where terrestrial connectivity

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DRDO & IIT Delhi Achieve 1 km Quantum Secure Communication

By BPN News Desk June 16, 2025

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), in partnership with IIT Delhi’s Centre of Excellence, has successfully demonstrated quantum entanglement-based, free-space quantum secure communication over a distance exceeding 1 km at the IIT Delhi campus. This milestone marks a significant step toward India’s future quantum internet and cyber-security

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Tata Communications Unveils TGN-IA2 Subsea Cable to Boost Asia Connectivity

By BPN News Desk June 5, 2025

Tata Communications has launched the TGN-IA2 submarine cable system to enhance digital connectivity across Asia. The new subsea cable links three critical business hubs—Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan—forming a key part of the company’s strategy to support growing data demands and strengthen intra-Asia network resilience. This state-of-the-art infrastructure is